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FIG. 8.-SOUTH WINDOW OF DINING ROOM, DIAL FROM
LIGHT III, 5.

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FIG. 9.-INSCRIPTIONS FROM SOUTH WINDOW OF DINING

ROOM.

of the lower lights (III. 1) is illustrated in Fig. 7, but no drawing in line can give an adequate idea of the brushwork, and still less of the colouring of the original. Figs. 10 and 11 show the spirited character of the heraldic drawing, and how excellently the lions are designed to fill the shape of the quartering."

In the inscriptions in this window three different styles of lettering are employed. Fig. 9 shows an example of each of these." All the lettering in the upper and middle tiers of lights (I. 1 to 5, and II. 1 to 5) is in a black-letter character, of which the first inscription in the plate is an example (from Light II. 2). There is much German character about this lettering, and Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, who was kind enough to give me his opinion, thinks that it was probably executed by English hands from a German original. In the lower tier of lights one of the inscriptions has disappeared (III. 3); in the remaining four, two hands are used, both of which are much more English in character than the black-letter hand in the lights above. The second example in the plate (from Light III. 4) shows the kind of small Roman lettering employed in the inscriptions of the second and fourth lights in this tier. The third example (from Light III. 5) shows the lettering employed in the inscriptions in the first and last lights -italic capitals with a great deal of well executed flourish.

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FIG. 10.-FAIRFAX, FROM

SOUTH WINDOW.

LIGHT III. 5.

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The bay window has suffered more than the others, for not only is the lower tier of lights now glazed with clear glass, but of the eighteen remaining lights two are of altogether later date, and four have been considerably patched. In the middle tier of lights the six remaining lights are treated in a very similar manner to the lower lights of the south

1 Fig. 7 is from a tracing which I made from the glass itself, redrawn by Mr. J. Alfred Gotch, F.S.A. I am indebted to Mr. Gotch and to his publisher, Mr. B. T. Batsford, for their kind permission to reproduce this drawing, and also Figs. 8 and 14, from his fine work, Architecture of the Renaissance in

FIG. 11.-STAPLETON, FROM

SOUTH WINDOW.
LIGHT 111. 2.

England (London, 1894), ii. p. 32, and
Plates 103, 104.

2 Fig. 10 is a Fairfax lion from the first quarter of the shield in Light III. 5. Fig. 11 is a Stapleton lion from Light

III. 2.

3 The inscriptions in Fig. 9 are reproduced from full-sized photographs printed by contact from the glass itself,

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